Rapper Lil Tjay has claimed that fellow rapper Offset “must have a gambling addiction." Lil Tjay made several claims about Offset while streaming on Twitch, including suggesting he no longer had the financial means to support himself and was asking random people for money via Cash App.
Lil Tjay claimed he lent Offset $5,000 at a casino and that the rapper also took money from others. Overall, Tjay claims Offset owes him as much as $10,000. The rapper shared screenshots of direct Instagram messages the pair shared, in which Offset physically threatened Tjay after asking for the money back.
“Why I diss Offset? Offset is broke. I'll tell y'all a true story ... I seen [Offset] in the casino. He was popped, he was panicking," Lil Tjay said during the stream.
Offset has not responded to Lil Tjay’s allegations. Most recently, Offset has been partying in Dubai with other celebrity personalities like Melanie Jayda.
Rappers hit the news for gambling, again
Offset and Lil Tjay are not the first rappers to make the news for their involvement in gambling. The most famous example may be the most famous rapper in the world, Drake, who has spent millions on sports betting and casino gambling in the past few years.
Drake spent $210,000 in Bitcoin betting through Stake to wager on Charles LeClerc to win the Las Vegas Grand Prix in 2024. LeClerc did not win the race, meaning Drake has lost five of his past six publicly shared bets. His only winning bet in the streak was on Jon Jones to KO Stipe Miocic.
One of his losing bets was a wager on Mike Tyson to beat Jake Paul in the immensely popular fight, which attracted record-breaking combat sport handles across the U.S., despite several U.S. states prohibiting bets on the bout.
Drake became the face of Stake, signing a partnership with the online gaming platform in 2022. Stake is not licensed in Drake’s home province of Ontario but accepts players from other provinces in Canada. Stake is not available in the U.S.
Lil Baby opened up on how he lost between $8 and $9 million during a 40-hour gambling session. The rapper has since quit gambling, asking his friend Mike Rubin, the founder and CEO of Fanatics Sportsbook, to write to a selection of casinos to block Lil Baby from visiting.
The need for those struggling with problem gambling to self-exclude from gambling locations and online gambling platforms is why experts have called for a nationwide self-exclusion program in the U.S. The director of Prohibet, Matt Heap, expressed the need for this in a recent IC360 webinar.
“Legislatively something's going to have to be done because every year or two something new comes along that you're going to have to continue to deal with. The fact of the matter is it moves so fast, a regulated government entity cannot keep up with that at the speed that it changes and new things,” he said.
